Hello Daniel, On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:31:04PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Thanks for this work! i was able to rebuild 4.0b8-1 from your diff > with something like the following: The reason I haven't asked for sponsorship for either of the new upstream releases is because it is a nonpristine tarball, and I either have to ask the sponsor to do a list of not-so-normal and nontrivial things, to avoid them relying and trusting the "cleanliness" of my own sourceball.
> sadly, 4.0b9 is now out upstream, so this is out-of-date again... Any > chance of packaging for the new new version? I started work on it, but gave up for now because of the complexities of providing a clean way of building the sourceball given only the .diff.gz. > One last thing: it occurred to me that might be nice to check the > integrity of the downloaded tarball against an expected source. The > following diffs (patch with -p2) should enable a simple integrity > check with sha1sum: Thanks for this; I'll try to include it next time I'm hacking on it. > Of course, this integrity check doesn't account for the integrity of > anything drawn from starlink CVS... Indeed. I don't know how often that changes. > Thanks for packaging this tool for debian! Are you an astronomer then? (Or else, why are you using ds9? :)) Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
